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90 Minutes From Wembley

As expected, CC went back to the 442, leaving out Joao & bringing back Wallace. However, we started brightly although Bannan was marginalised for the opening quarter by being shoved on the left wing. FF had a goal disallowed correctly when he fired home brilliantly but was offside. Have to say how well the officials did to come to the correct decision in tricky circumstances.

Wallace fired in brilliantly after a clever Hooper pass to give us a deserved half time lead.

When Knockhaert went off injured, leaving us with a man advantage, we had the opportunity to win the tie but Brighton defended stoutly & we added just one more when FF's clever ball put Lee clear & he finished adroitly to tuck it inside the LH post.

We bombarded the Brighton goal but they restricted us to 2-0.

Westwood - 6
Hunt - 7
Lees - 7
Loovens - 7
Pudil - 7
Wallace - 7
Lopez - 7
Lee - 8
Bannan - 7
FF - 8
Hooper - 7
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Nuhiu - 5
Matias - 6
Joao - 6

Stat Attack:

Goals: 1 - Wallace, Lee

Assists: 1 - Hooper, FF

Touches: 90 - Bannan, 85 - Lees, 69 - Loovens, 60 - FF, 59 - Lee, 56 - Hunt, 53 - Pudil, 50 - Lopez, 43 - Wallace, 41 - Westwood, 32 - Hooper, 23 - Matias, 9 - Nuhiu, 3 - Joao

Tackles: 4 - FF, Hunt, 2 - Lee, 1 - Lees, Wallace, Lopez

Interceptions: 2 - Matias, 1 - Loovens, Lopez, Hooper, Nuhiu

Clearances: 9 - Lees, 4 - Loovens, Pudil, 2 - Westwood, 1 - Hunt, Lee, Matias

Attempts: 4 - Wallace, FF, 2 - Pudil, Lee, 1 - Lopez, Bannan, Nuhiu, Joao

Attempts On Target: 2 - Wallace, 1 - Lee, FF,

Key Passes: 3 - Lee, Hooper, 1 - Loovens, Lees, Wallace, FF, Nuhiu

Dribbles: 2 - Lee, FF, 1 - Lopez, Hooper

Dispossessed: 3 - Wallace, 2 - Lee, Bannan, FF, 1 - Pudil, Lopez, Matias

Bad Control: 3 - FF, 2 - Hunt, 1 - Lee, Hooper, Matias

Crosses (Accurate in brackets): 7 - Hunt (0), 6 - Bannan (1), 4 - Pudil (1), 2 - FF (1), Matias (0), 1 - Wallace (1), Lopez (0), Lee (0),

Passing Accuracy (Total Passes in Brackets):

100% - Joao (2), 98% - Lopez (44), 89% - Lee (47), Bannan (79), 88% - Matias (16), 86% - Pudil (42), 85% - Loovens (60), Hunt (40), 84% - Lees (74), 83% - FF (40), 82% - Wallace (34), 79% - Hooper (28), 58% - Westwood (24), 57% - Nuhiu (7)

We certainly took advantage of Brighton from the start as they still seemed shell shocked from losing at Boro. We also took advantage of the injuries that took away their star players and left them with ten men for half an hour. We might have done better but then again, we might have done worse.

We have done probably 80% of the job & if we are professional then the other 20% should be straightforward.